[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 144 (Thursday, September 7, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Page S5069]
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SA 834. Mrs. MURRAY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON CONTRACTING WITH DISCRIMINATORY
CONTRACTORS.
(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense may not enter
into any contract described in subsection (b) with any person
or business that the Secretary of Labor determines to have
engaged, during the 3-year period preceding the request for
proposals for the contract, in serious, repeated, willful, or
pervasive discrimination on the basis of sex in the payment
of wages in violation of section 6(d) of the Fair Labor
Standards Act of 1938 (commonly known as the ``Equal Pay Act
of 1963'') (29 U.S.C. 206(d)) or of title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 (42 U.S.C. 2000e et seq.).
(b) Applicable Contract.--A contract described in this
subsection is any procurement contract for goods or services,
including construction, in which the estimated value of the
supplies acquired and services required exceeds $500,000.
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